To help save the economy, the Government will announce next month that the Immigration department will start deporting seniors (instead of illegal’s) in order to lower Social Security and medicare costs.
Older people are easier to catch and will not remember how to get back home.
Is the kind of world you want to live in?
How about using this technology to stop the flow of ‘illegal immigrants’?
I received “Crossing with the Virgin stories from the migrant trail” by Kathryn Ferguson, Norma Price and Ted Parks, published in 2010 by the University of Arizona Press. As part of the Green Books campaign, Eco-Libris conducts a campaign each year to encourage the use of recycled paper in books. Right now “…more than 30 Million trees are cut down annually for virgin paper used for the production of books sold in the U.S. alone.” This book review and all other reviews of books printed on recycled paper will appear on this day, November 10, 2010.
The authors Ferguson, Price and Parks present harrowing tales of migrants crossing from Mexico into Arizona, a border that is protected not so much by a fence but the hot and arid Arizona desert near Nogales. The authors believe the illegal immigrant problem is a moral and ethical problem for us. We allow these desperate people to come into our country and die on the way to freedom. Many perish because they fall in the dark and break bones and are abandoned or they run out of water and suffer dehydration. Many are women and children.
They come here to work in jobs Americans won’t do. They put aside money to bring their families across or send money home so their families can have a better life in Mexico south. The authors are part of an independent group of Good Samaritans who search for migrants and provide water, food, clothes and health care. Many times the Border Patrol isn’t happy with their assistance, because they are risking their lives chasing after the illegal immigrants. The Border Patrol might capture some and deport them and capture them again and again.
One naturally sympathizes with the immigrants. The authors want you to believe their motives are pure. They just want a better life. In many cases people who live near the border used to pass back and forth without much ado. Now, it’s a security problem and Americans are tired of providing free health care and education to those here illegally.
The authors say we have a moral and ethical duty to provide aid and comfort to those attempting the crossing. I agree we have a problem and I’m there are the Good Samaritans who risk their lives and give their time to help migrants caught in the desert. However, we can’t allow people to just cross. We may have legitimate threats to our national security.
Thinking people should find a solution to the border crisis. Some answers might be free access to the U.S. with a work permit, like the old bracero program. Or we could do away with the automatic citizenship for births of illegals. Or we could work with the unions to allow unlimited migration as long as they carry a work permit. |We must figure out a path to citizenship for immigrants who want to live here in the open. That’s the humane thing to do.
BTW, Richard Maybury in his latest “Early Warning Report” fears a civil war is coming to Mexico. If he is right, there will be thousands of refugees wanting to escape to safety. In all of history, he says, when millions of refugees were fleeing a war, there hasn’t been a time when refugees have been prevented from crossing a border. We could be facing a much bigger problem!
I will choose the best comment to this post and send my copy of this book to you, free of charge.
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Do Non-citizens have a right to vote? Some cities are considering giving non-citizens the right to vote. They think they should have a say on issues that affect them.
Historically, 40 states allowed noncitizens to vote going back to 1776, but an anti-immigrant backlash in the late 1800s and early 1900s resulted in laws that eliminated their voting rights by 1926.
If we allow non-citizens to vote, where’s the advantage of citizenship?
My thanks to Instapundit for pointing out this interesting post at First Things by David P. Goldman, A 1600th Anniversary Question: Why Did Rome Fall?
In the article when the barbarians sacked Rome they destroyed old symbols of the culture, public buildings and imperial mausoleums in particular, and I would suggest built their own. Shades of the Mosque that is planned for Ground Zero. But, how did a “…large Germanic group (that) probably numbered a few tens of thousands…” prevail “…while regions like Italy and Roman Africa had populations of several millions,” supporting a standing army of 600,000 during the 4th century. The answer seems to be that the slaves in Rome fled to join the ranks of the barbarians.
Now I ask with at least 12 million undocumented illegal aliens in the country, how do we know who is for us and who is against when the chips are down? We already know that 10 to 20% of the mosques in this country preach against us and for Sharia. How many of the undocumented are a fifth column within this country waiting for a signal from the barbarians?
The Maritime Sentry has this new video from the Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee:
H.R. 5016 would prohibit the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture from taking action on public lands which impede border security on such lands, and for other purposes.
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CNSNews.com reports:
Twenty-two states are now in the process of drafting or seeking to pass legislation similar to Arizona’s law against illegal immigration. This is occurring despite the fact that the Obama administration has filed a lawsuit against the Arizona law and a federal judge has ruled against portions of that law – a ruling that is now being appealed.
States with proposals that mirror the Arizona law are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.
Where are the blue states of Oregon, Washington and California?
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Reuters tells us that Florida AG Bill McCollum has proposed a law that goes “one step further” than Arizona in dealing with illegal immigrants, yet Reuters doesn’t bother to tell us what that one step is. Very poor reporting!
“The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council and its affiliated local councils, which represents rank-and-file ICE officers, unanimously approved a no-confidence motion on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and Assistant Director Phyllis Coven. A letter announcing the 259-0 vote said that ICE leaders are pursuing “misguided and reckless initiatives” and that ICE managers “abandoned the Agency’s core mission of enforcing United States immigration laws and providing for public safety, and have instead directed their attention to campaigning for policies and programs related to amnesty.”
“The message from front-line professionals is that President Obama’s hand-picked political appointees are ignoring their statutory obligations to enforce the law in favor of the administration’s policy of calculated neglect.”
Obama swore to defend the Constitution. He’s treading on Impeachment grounds for not doing his job!
